The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Rap was my drug.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

I’m a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker’s ‚You Are So Beautiful‘ and Eric Clapton’s ‚Wonderful Tonight‘ – songs that go straight to the point.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

I’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.